Tag: Marian Botsford Fraser

23 Nov 2015

November 16, 2015 Dear PEN Members, Dear Friends, A last monthly letter to say thank you and to report on the 81st Congress in Quebec City. First, the obvious, we have a new President. Jennifer Clement, a wonderful novelist. She...

03 Sep 2015

02 September 2014 PEN International and English PEN are delighted that all charges against PEN Pinter Prize winner Mazen Darwish have now been dropped. PEN warmly congratulates Syrian activist, journalist and winner of the 2014 PEN Pinter Prize for international...

30 Jul 2015

30 July 2015, London The Honduran government must honour and make a reality its promises to protect journalists and combat impunity for crimes against them, PEN International said today. According to PEN’s information, six journalists have been murdered since the...

16 Jul 2015

London, 15 July 2015 The release from prison on 14 July 2015 after more than three months in solitary confinement, of Nabeel Rajab, human rights defender, writer and President of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), is a welcome...

15 Apr 2011

Chair’s Notebook #6 Between 24 and 27 March 2011, the WiPC was in Brussels for our ninth conference; we were some 75 strong, from almost forty centres. It was spring in Brussels; we were comfortably settled into three hotels in...

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